This episode we speak with Dr. Felania Liu. The episode is part 3 of a special 6-episode Season of Keywords in Play, exploring intersections and exchanges between Chinese and Australian game studies scholarship. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Dr Felania Liu is a game researcher, and is founder and curator of the Homo Ludens Archive. She currently lectures at Beijing Normal University and has previously worked at the Department of History, Institute of Humanities, Tsinghua University /Durham University. Felania is also responsible for cultivating the game research community in China and for fostering international collaborations in the field of video game studies from the perspectives and techniques of Social Sciences in China. As a researcher, a historian, a curator, and a gamification designer, Felania specializes in using fun and game mechanics to solve problems in education, recruiting, training, learning, marketing and the designing of events. Felania promotes video games as forms of media that can bring meaningful communication and are able to make positive social impacts to the world.

The podcast series is part of Engaging Influencers initiative. This initiative is curated by the Australia Council for the Arts and funded by the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations

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Interviewer: Hugh Davies

Production Team: Darshana Jayemanne, Emilie Reed, Zoyander Street

Audio Direction and Engineering: Damian Stewart

Double Bass: Aaron Stewart

Special Thanks: Mahli-Ann Butt, Chloe Yan Li